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"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"
Thats the Accuplaylist. Accu stands for accurate and playlist stands for playlist.
studio gluckman
"A home makeover-style TV programme in Iraq that offers needy families the opportunity to have their war-damaged homes re-built from scratch has become a massive hit."
"The city has grown up since the Modern shut its doors to build its new home two and a half years ago. The hole left by the twin towers. A war in Iraq. A polarized electorate. Our culture is in a crisis as critical as any since the cold war period when Modernism reached its final, exuberant bloom."
It sounds like a gnomic paradox, but the concept of invisible architecture translates into a constellation of expensive decisions. Riley pointed to a black granite wall whose panels are so large and meticulously aligned that the joints all but vanish, creating the effect of a seamless curtain. "When the light hits it a certain way, it looks like velvet," Riley says. "This is architecture that's all about hiding itself."
Hard Choices but No Overall Plan on 9/11 Rebuilding
still no tenants for #7 wtc or the freedom tower
...more cowbell...
naked airport
"A former Yale University architectural student sued the designers of the World Trade Center site's planned Freedom Tower on Monday, saying the designs for the skyscraper violate copyrights of those he created at school. "
After the highly successful sale of art and objects from Damien Hirst's London restaurant, the Pharmacy, at Sotheby's in London last month, it was interesting to see how his works would fare. Mr. Mugrabi was selling one of the Mr. Hirst's classic dot paintings, "Amodiaquin'' (1993), estimated at $500,000 to $700,000. Many collectors who felt they had perhaps missed out at the Pharmacy sale were obviously even more set on shopping last night. The painting sold to an unidentified telephone bidder for $848,000, a record for a painting by the artist.
One of the evening's biggest casualties was when Gerhard Richter's "Three Sisters,'' a 1965 photo-based painting failed to sell. Despite its pristine provenance - the seller was Lew Manilow, the Chicago collector - there wasn't a single bid.
While Mr. Richter's photo-based painting went unsold, some photographs sold for particularly high prices, perhaps given the success of Phillips, de Pury & Company's sale of contemporary photographs put together by Baroness Marion Lambert, a well-known collector. A 1980 photograph by Richard Prince, "Untitled (Three Women Looking in the Same Direction),'' sold to an unidentified collector for $736,000, more than twice its $350,000 high estimate and a record for a photograph by Mr. Prince.
catalano pavilion NCSU
design by committee
Private Sector, Public Good: The Necessity of Economic Sustainability in Architectural Activism
"The most successful solutions to the problem of disenfranchisement empower individuals to be self-sufficient; self-sufficiency halts these problems' cyclical nature. It is less often recognized that service organizations also require self-sufficiency. Currently, work for the homeless and displaced is ghettoized to the nonprofit, volunteer, and governmental sectors. It depends upon the delegation of federal money, foundation grants, and private philanthropy; organizations purporting to catalyze self-sufficiency are themselves dependent on charity. Funding runs out, services are cut, and design quality suffers along with the poor and displaced. A solution to this problem lies in the collaboration of the nonprofit and private sectors. They can benefit from each other's strengths and create new business models for architects to address the needs of the disenfranchised."